Comments on: Jobs’ health called into question yet again, Apple source denies rumors

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:25:18 +0000

@Galvatron: Now you’re claiming insider trading is occurring? Get a fucking grip on something besides your tool, fool. Jebuz!

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:03:12 +0000

@fader: You insignificant little piece of human excrement. Grow up before you get run over by reality, half-pint.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:24:25 +0000

wel only other explantion is he has buddies who shortsell apple lol

By: fader

fader — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:37:17 +0000

How does this thread rate moderation and none of the others do? I really did sort of like this blog, I guess the apple fanboy rumors about it are true…. sad very sad. Oh well, IMHO I hope he dies so i can laugh at apple fanboys crying.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:32:33 +0000

@Galvatron: Thanks for highlighting the difference between those who are stock analysts and those who post on blogs. Unfortunately for your premise, those analysts are required by law to disclose their holdings.

Idiot.

By: Mr. Hi-Definition

Mr. Hi-Definition — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:15:20 +0000

Leave Steve Jobs ALONE…! lol

I had to do that…

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:48:47 +0000

can’t trus CNBC even thogh apple i s a dow indicator i would not buy stock in it right now and whaos to say goldman dosn’t have any stock in apple himself if he dose all the more reason to spin that steve is healthy otherwis his share value falls throgh the floor

By: backbeat

backbeat — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:05:18 +0000

@neodorian – That is no excuse for gaming the stockmarket and IS an illegal act. Discovery is gonna be a royal bitch for the Giz-idiot involved.

By: drunknbass

drunknbass — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:04:56 +0000

Amazing how a site like gizmodo can have an impact on the stock market like that.

By: Mr. Mayor

Mr. Mayor — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:27:19 +0000

Looks like Goldman’s report at CNBC has shut down all of these recent health rumors. I simply wish we could hear from the man himself. A simple statement or appearance would clear a whole lot up!

…And to all the ‘haters’ out there that want to see ‘His Job-ness’ wiped out… C’mon… Grow up.

By: H.N.I.C.

H.N.I.C. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:19:14 +0000

P.S.; Thanks Dan B!

By: H.N.I.C.

H.N.I.C. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:15:53 +0000

Why is it so important for the “Haters” to kill of Steve Jobs?

It seems like a strange type of honor for people to jump the gun and put out rumors of his exit! whats the rush? Does Mircosoft NEED S. Jobs out of the way to survive?

Leave the man alone!

By: JJLO

JJLO — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:26:56 +0000

Regardless of what you feel about apple, macs and OSX, we all want him to be healthy period.

By: Dan B

Dan B — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:09:05 +0000

Do a bit of research …

“The most common type of pancreatic cancer – adenocarcinoma – carries a life expectancy of about a year. Jobs was lucky; he had an extremely rare form called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor that can be treated surgically, without radiation or chemotherapy.”

Steve Jobs underwent a Whipple procedure and this often causes weight loss. Steve is lean due to the Whipple but he is otherwise healthy and fully capable of fulfilling his CEO duties. More > http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/13/steve-jobs-life-after-the-whipple/

From AppleInsider today – “Steve is Fine!!!
Listen I am just as concerned as everyone on this matter… but I have a friend that works at Apple Headquarters in UI design. Me and him have talked about this a couple of times now… he never tells me anything that he does for work, because he isn’t allowed to. But what he has told me is that on most days Steve eats lunch about the same time he does. Steve usually sits with Jonathan Ive and a handful of other Executives. He says that visually there is nothing wrong with him. He looks fine. I asked is he still really thin? His response was No, he definitely is not. but he isn’t pudgy in the waist any more, his opinion is that steve is aging. He is 53 about to be 54 years old, he just isn’t young looking anymore. He is just thinning out a little with age is all. He assures me based on what he has seen, that there is nothing wrong with Steve, and the media is blowing everything out of proportion.

As far as macworld goes, I will definitely miss Macworld keynotes! but now we can all buy freely around christmas time, and never have to worry about what apple is coming out with in early January!”

By: neodorian

neodorian — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:54:11 +0000

@backbeat: You’ll never stop gossip and rumor like this. True or not, you could say that about any tech rumor. People know the risks when they trade based on rumor and hearsay.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:38:24 +0000

Gaming the stock market, as this Giz-idiot is doing will kill the Tech Blogosphere once it is determined that s/he profited from it. Illegal acts, such as this, should require 100-year sentences per count.

By: crescentdave

crescentdave — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:30:58 +0000

I wish him the best. I come from a primarily PC work and home environment, but have iMacs as well and I am appreciative of the drive and vision he’s shown in terms of pushing the style and performance envelope. From hardware to software, primarily complacent companies have had to innovate, change their pricing structure and provide some of the UI/hardware refinement/integration that Jobs has spearheaded time and again at Apple.

By: marco

marco — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:55:15 +0000

Apple is done if Jobs dies.
Windows 7 is gonna kill the market too…

Two in one year is not good for Apple.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:37:18 +0000

if he dies it looks like apple might die as well cause everytime there a health scare the stocks decline

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:24:31 +0000

I have a hard time looking at Jobs and believing that he’s not sick. The poor guy looks like a dead man walking.

Really, he was lucky to beat it the first time. Pancreatic Cancer’s usually a death sentence.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:04:37 +0000

Has anyone seen him lately? He doesn’t have to prove to anyone that he’s fine, but if I was in the middle of all these rumors and I was not sick I would come out and do a press conference or something. So it either doesn’t bother Apple or Jobs at all, or he is really not doing well. If that’s the case, hope he gets better. Bad health is never wished upon anyone.

This whole thing reminds me of Fidel Castro.